How to Cook It

If you’re used to buying ready-to-drink (RTD) or instant iced tea, you’ll be amazed at the difference in freshness and flavor once you learn how to make iced tea at home. You might call it iced tea or ice tea, or just plain cold tea. In fact, I usually enjoy mine at room temperature. Having …

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How to make breakfast? Over the years, I’ve gone from a high-starch, lowfat breakfast sensibility to one that basically eliminates carbs from my first meal of the day. I’ll be sharing tips for how to make the satisfying, low-carb breakfasts that keep me going for hours and hours as this website develops. Breakfast on the …

Homemade buttermilk is tasty, easy to make, and sooo good for you. It’s not just a refreshing beverage, but also a healthful cultured milk product with all the essential goodness from lacto-fermentation that we humans need. I’m talking about those probiotics that our traditional foods were so rich in, and that the modern diet is …

Homemade beef bone broth. Like my chicken stock recipe, my beef stock recipe is easy, cheap and supremely nourishing — and free of extraneous ingredients and steps. Just like homemade soup stock should be. Since the dawn of the human race, we’ve been cooking bones to get at their goodness, including the marrow, and the gelatin …

Macaroni and cheese that you make on the stovetop? It doesn’t have to come out of a box. Natural foods brands of boxed macaroni and cheese exist. Our favorite is Annie’s. It has the most integrity, and tastes the best, of any powdered-cheese-and-noodles-in-a-box product of its kind, and we’ve tried ’em all. But there’s an …

How do you make soup? Put things in a pot with enough water that they’re swimming in it, put the heat on medium-low, and wait. Soon you will have soup. And for heaven’s sake, don’t forget the salt! Homemade beef stock recipe Homemade chicken stock recipe Homemade beef and barley soup recipe Homemade egg drop soup recipe Homemade …

Here’s something that often gets left out of discussions of how to cook: how to make things to drink. Here’s why homemade beverages are important. if you think about it, you’ll notice that a huge chunk of the processed foods industry consists of beverages someone has constructed for you: soda pop, RTD tea (that is, …